Quotes About Income

The confidence is really driven by the woman - whether she can have the confidence that there will be enough earning or income to finance all the domestic spending - but also by the middle-income class, which for many Asian countries has become the growth power for the economy.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

When I first turned pro, I was making a lot of money, and I was spending money from two fights down the line.

I'm not a spendthrift. It's hard enough to earn!

We are taking close to $10 a CD the way we are doing it, and I think that is a fair amount to split up between five guys. Each of us makes like two bucks a record.

If you are ideologically opposed to income splitting for families, why wouldn't you scrap it for seniors? What is the distinguishing principle between income splitting for people with kids and income splitting for people who are retired?

Income splitting benefits only fifteen per cent, mostly the wealthiest Canadians, but it's paid for by everyone.

While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.

I'm the spokesman for ADT, and ADT, brother, pays better than most actors make on film.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.

I would rather receive one percent of the income of 100 men, than 100% of the income of one man.

We ought to define a man's income as the maximum value which he can consume during a week, and still expect to be as well off at the end of the week as he was at the beginning.

Men do not realize how great an income thrift is.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

The immense majority of intellectually eminent men disbelieve in the Christian religion, but they conceal the fact in public, because they are afraid of losing their incomes.

Wealth that is stored up in gold is dead. It rots and stinks. True wealth is made every day by men getting up out of bed and going to work.

class is more than income—it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

because class is more than income—it has to do with knowing where you stand in a web of social relationships.

remember that the interest is paid on the face value of the bond, so if you can buy a 5 per cent bond at just 10 per cent of its face value you can earn a handsome yield of 50 per cent. In essence, you expect a return proportional to the risk you are prepared to take.

Otros pidieron prestado para financiar un estilo de vida basado en un consumo ostentoso. Los duques de Devonshire, por ejemplo, se gastaban entre el 40 y el 55 por ciento de su renta anual en pagar intereses: tan enormes eran las cantidades que habían pedido prestadas en el siglo XIX. «Lo único que ustedes no tienen —se quejaba uno de sus abogados— es la capacidad de autocontrol.»

Once the United States was famed as a land of opportunity, where a family could leap from 'rags to riches' in a generation. But today, if you are born to parents in the bottom income quintile, you have just a 5 per cent chance of getting into the top quintile without a college degree. What Charles Murray has called the 'cognitive elite', educated at exclusive private universities, intermarried and congregated in a few